We all watch the news and see reports on Facebook of the latest crimes that happen in our hometowns. But it can be hard to tell at a big picture level how dangerous our town actually is.

No one wants to feel unsafe, and statistically speaking, odds are that where you live is most likely relatively safe. In order to help the good people of Montana — and anyone looking to move to Montana — know just how close they are to danger, we took data from the annual FBI report and did some serious analysis.

The data shows that these ten cities are currently the most dangerous in the Treasure State for 2019:

Located in the northeastern part of Montana, Wolf Point isn’t the worst in state in terms of either violent or property crime statistics, but bad rankings in each earn it the title of the 7th most dangerous city in the state.

The good news is that instances of property crime dropped between 2015-17, but the bad news is that violent crime rose in the same time period.

That left Wolf Point residents with a 1 in 202 chance of being the victim of a violent crime in 2017, making the city the 7th most violent place in Montana.

Located in northwestern Montana, Kalispell is, by a wide margin, one of the least violent places on this list, and around the middle of the pack when compared to all Montanan cities violent crime statistics.

The good news for the commercial center of northwestern Montana is that violent crime dropped between 2015-17, but unfortunately, property crime also went up during this period.

Locking It All Up In Montana

The latest FBI crime data shows that Polson ranks as the most dangerous city in Montana for 2019.

We want to point out again that there’s still safes places in Polson and that this isn’t a comment on the people that live there. So please don’t beat us up.

11 thoughts on “These Are The 10 Most Dangerous Cities In Montana For 2019”

Things must’ve changed in Butte, when I was growing up in the 70s it was one of the most dangerous places to go. If you’re a teenager cruising the gut with an 18 license plate you become a target but that’s also true in any small town in Montana.

Bill Wilson, only Wolf Point, Polson and Ronan are on Reservations. The other seven are not. Also, I grew up in Wolf Point, number one on the list, and feel completely safe there, then and now. There is poverty and desperation and alcoholism, in many of these rural towns, whether or not they are on a reservation. Also, Wolf Point is now close to the Bakken oil range, where an influx of people, desperate for jobs have permeated the Northwestern North Dakota and Northeastern Montana, bringing crime with them.

Whats all on the reservation? Their is no reservation towns on this list. Because reservation towns are necessarily part of the state because they are basically their own nations. They are not under state jurisdiction. They are under federal jurisdiction. And they police their own.